Mikhail Horowitz, poet, performance artist, and erstwhile Cultural Czar of the Woodstock Times, is the author of Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978) and The Opus of Everything in Nothing Flat. He is a contributing editor to Elysian Fields Quarterly and his poetry and collages have been widely anthologized. On CD, his jazz fables can be heard on The Blues of the Birth (Sundazed Records) and his folk-song parodies and political billingsgate on Live, Jive, & Over 45 (with Gilles Malkine; self-produced, available from the trunk of his car). Horowitz lives in the terra incognita of Quarryville, and his day gig finds him in the Bard College Publications Office. His review of Eamon Grennan's poetry collection The Quick of It appears on page 45.

Working mainly in the field of portraiture, Dmitri Kasterine has been a photographer for 45 years. Of the many notable people he has photographed, the images of Samuel Beckett, Marc Jacobs, Paul Auster, Francis Bacon, and Steve Martin are his favorites. Earlier in his career, he shot stills for Stanley Kubrick on A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Dr. Strangelove. At the moment, he is working on a book of portraits of the people of Newburgh. He lives in Garrison with Caroline and their 15 year-old son, Nicholas. His portrait of Richard Butler appears on page 36.

Dion Ogust moved to the Hudson Valley from New York City in the mid '80s. Her work appears in national and regional periodicals and in people's homes. For a photographer who has always embraced photojournalism, portraits in and out of the studio, and landscape photography, the world is rich in subjects and opportunity. The digital era has not only brought her out of the darkroom but into filmmaking as well, working as a producer and cinematographer on "In Your Face TV," a blend of political satire and commentary. Her photograph of Daniel Berrigan's talk at the Speaker's Forum on March 19 appears on page 86.

Lorrie Klosterman has been a writer for Chronogram for four years and has edited the Whole Living section for nearly two. She arrived in the Hudson Valley in the late 1980s in a blinding snowstorm, literally and figuratively, with a new baby and many changes. Shelving the pursuit of full-time academia (with a PhD in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley and years of post-doc training in cell biology and physiology) for the joyful pursuit of fully present parenthood, she adjunct teaches occasionally at local colleges, writes health/science books for teens, promotes appreciation of nature, and now seeks representation for a novel and three screenplays. She credits the move to the Valley and an early visit to the Omega Institute for rediscovery of spirituality, hope, the arts, and play. Her article explaining the role of doulas in the birthing process appears on page 82.